Apple Denies Favouring ChatGPT After Partnership Claims, Rejects Elon Musk’s Allegation that App Store Hinders Rivals
Elon Musk alleges Apple’s App Store rankings favor OpenAI’s ChatGPT, plans to sue for antitrust violations as Grok ranks 13th and X is 130th in Australia, sources say.
- Late Monday, Elon Musk claimed he would take 'immediate legal action' over alleged favoritism toward ChatGPT in the Apple App Store.
- In recent years, the company has faced multiple antitrust allegations, including EU fines of nearly $2 billion and legal scrutiny in court cases.
- On Tuesday, rankings showed ChatGPT in seventh place and Grok fifth overall and second in Productivity, despite being free.
- In response to Musk’s accusations, Apple defended the fairness of its App Store, telling Bloomberg its platform “is designed to be fair and free of bias” and aims to offer “safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers.”
- Despite Musk’s threats, no lawsuit was filed today, and apps like DeepSeek and Perplexity now top the App Store, challenging his claims.
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Apple denies favouring ChatGPT after partnership claims, rejects Elon Musk’s allegation that App Store hinders rivals
Apple has denied Elon Musk's allegations of discrimination in its App Store, stating it operates fairly. Musk accused Apple of hindering competition with OpenAI.
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What began as a threat to sue Apple over alleged OpenAI favoritism quickly devolved into a juvenile social media back-and-forth between two of the world's most powerful AI execs.
The owner of the startup of Artificial Intelligence (IA) xAI, who holds the Chatbot Grok, threatened Apple with a judicial action, claiming that it turned the competition against the ChatGPT “impossible”, in its App Store....
San Francisco, United States. Billionaire Elon Musk accused Apple on Tuesday of favoring ChatGPT in its app store and threatened to initiate legal action, which caused an on-going social media exchange with the executive director of OpenAI, the matrix of the artificial intelligence model, Sam Altman. “Apple is behaving in a way that makes it impossible for any artificial intelligence company” to “get to #1 on App Store, which is an unequivocal v…
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